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The Keeper
  • Published: 2 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241823767
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $55.00
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The Keeper

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8 Apr 2026
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2 Apr 2026
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2 Apr 2026
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2 May 2026
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From the bestselling writer who has been called 'incandescent' by Stephen King and 'absolutely mesmerizing' by Gillian Flynn, comes the most compelling novel of Tana French's career yet.

On a cold night in a remote Irish village, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead in the river.

In a place like this, her death isn’t simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty’s tangles.

As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel’s death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line . . .
  • Published: 2 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241823767
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $55.00
Categories:

About the author

Tana French

Tana French is the Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place, The Trespasser and The Wych Elm. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Barry and Macavity awards, the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Best Crime Fiction. She grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and trained as an actor at Trinity College Dublin. She lives in Dublin with her family.

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Praise for The Keeper

A masterful, beautiful mystery

Chris Whitaker on THE HUNTER

Crime fiction's biggest contemporary star

Guardian

If you haven’t read Tana French yet, I really highly recommend that you do

Harlan Coben

Among the first rank of great literary novelists

Observer

A tremendously rich and satisfying conclusion to one of the very best trilogies in crime fiction

Sarah Hilary

The Keeper is a masterpiece . . . French’s sense of place and characterisation is so authentic that I feel like I know these people and that I live among them. Above all, it reads like an elegy for a way of life that we may lose, if we don’t take care of it

Liz Nugent